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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Allison Park, Pa, Us

I excel in managing district-wide budgets and ensuring spending is aligned with critical grants. My expertise includes streamlining vendor negotiations, procuring curriculum materials and subscriptions, and administering essential applications to support educational programs.I’m also dedicated to fostering teacher success by coordinating impactful professional development and strategic planning events. With a detail-oriented approach and a commitment to efficiency, I thrive in this role which requires organization, multitasking, and collaboration.Passionate about supporting educators and enhancing student outcomes, I bring a proactive mindset to every challenge.

After one of the most successful years in my career, I decided to transition to the education field. I am using my skills and knowledge in a role supporting our local school district. I love coming in every day and helping to create a future-forward educational experience for our students and to being a part of a team that cares so much about each other and their constituents.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Effectively stood up and lead a dynamic team responsible for developing competitive market positioning for new products and services. We support product strategy through pricing, positioning and assessing customer value. We created and manage a governance process to align finance, sales,product owners and executive leadership around our go-to-market approach.Our team is responsible for all revenue-generating agreements, customer contracts and negotiations. Dealing directly with customers, we help to develop agreements that enable both parties to be successful and support enGen's growth agenda.We manage billing and collections, ensuring that customer invoices are timely, accurate and aligned to our agreements. We have driven tangible improvements in the cash conversion cycle by enhancing our processes for billing and for collections.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Responsible for enabling the next phase of HMHS’ growth by driving go-to-market strategies and deal structures while optimizing for customer experience, revenue potential, profitability, and compliance along with internal alignment and readiness. Support communication of the HMHS Commercialization Matrix to external customers while also developing and delivering customer financial proposals and supporting negotiation and contract execution and invoicing. In partnership with growth and client engagement teams drive and define specific deal strategies and plan of pursuit. Provide strategic guidance on deal structure and client facing deliverables. Evaluate deal economics, commercial terms and conditions, operational requirements, and non-standard structuring requests.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Manage all aspects of commercial contracting between HMHS and key external clients. Responsible for day to day contract interpretation, complex negotiations, dispute management and document construction. Liaise across customer, internal customer support teams and both internal and external council to ensure compliance with existing agreements and to implement new and amended agreements as necessary. Responsible for all client invoicing activities including invoicing, collections, DSO and cash conversion cycle monitoring and internal controls. Lead international team through complicated IT transformation and drove a 25% improvement in automation.Drove employee engagement to 4.9 out of 5 points on the Gallup scale during a period of rapid change and a global pandemic.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Manage all aspects of commercial contracting between HMHS and key external clients. Responsible for day to day contract interpretation, complex negotiations, dispute management and document construction. Liaise across customer, internal customer support teams and both internal and external council to ensure compliance with existing agreements and to implement new and amended agreements as necessary. Lead a global team of 9 individuals.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Responsible for the direction and performance of all financial activities for significant external client. Service offerings to this client span four distinct areas: systems implementation, day to day operations, supplemental staff and co-funded project implementation. Specific accountabilities beyond client relationship management include: forecasting and budget administration, P&L management, oversight of the revenue cycle and operational support for both the client and for the HM Health Solutions project teams.

Operations finance support for a leading healthcare industry service provider. Supported client finance team through: * Forecasting quarterly and annual revenue portfolio. * Interim demand and capacity analysis* Operational reporting including project profitability, KPI and management P&L* Finance lead for project management system enhancement, including report development, employee training, development of end-to-end test plans and data mapping* Order to cash support including customer pricing and significant process documentation.* Organization-wide communication support for organization design changes

Lead and manage an organization responsible for financial and management reporting, budgeting, forecasting and analysis and working capital. Responsible for building and strengthening the finance functions and IT systems. Strategic partner to the company's ownership and operational leads. - Established financing for significant capital purchases. - Lead organization in annual capital planning. - Analyzed cost structure to assist in strategic decision-making. - Oversight of Accounts Receivable and Credit management function. - Support for organizational M&A activities. - Oversight of actual financial reporting and year-end audit.Responsible for aspects of HR and Administration functions including: - Leading the organization through an RFP for healthcare benefits, including Open Enrollment coordination. - Oversight of the 401k and Payroll functions.

Oversee financial and operational accounting functions and Accounts Receivable and collections for the U.S. business, ensuring effective and efficient processes, compliance with Company policies and U.S. accounting standards. Responsible for a team of 75 individuals spread across the US and Canada. Liaise with and support internal and external auditors. • Coordinated renewal and amendments to working capital financing facility, liaising between banking partners, supply chain colleagues and suppliers in a timely fashion.• Assessed and re-directed SAP implementation efforts to bring project back in line with go-live dates, including development and establishment of a governance structure for business-facing component of SAP Finance implementation effort. • Interim lead for newly created Data Management Organization.

Responsible for all financial aspects impacting the R&D and Quality teams, including: forecast and actuals for: G&A ($47mm), factory trial expenditures, impact on Cost of Goods Sold (standard revision variance) and capital spending. Used root-cause analysis resolve traceability for R&D driven cost savings actually achieved vs. planned. Developed communication and monitoring tools to raise awareness with non-financial audience and leveraged cross-functional leaders to develop governance process for offsetting initiatives and process improvements. Critical member of cross-functional, grass roots, Priority One steering committee. Assisted in the conceptual design and functionality of this ground-breaking system and related reporting. Active participant in sub team to determine and embed governance process. Developing a pilot a program that creates a direct link between significant business initiatives and the required resource. Anticipated results include both improved financial control and resource allocation.Leading R&D team through cultural change to reposition fiscal ownership and accountability, centered on a more collective, prioritized method of spending and a governance process in line with that used by other departments. Establishing basic tools and financial processes to support R&D and Quality teams, including: templates, reports, metrics, OMEGA tracking, training and routine meetings.

Responsible for continuous improvement of Investor Relations process and assisting in development and articulation of Heinz's strategic communications to the financial and investment communities.Led cross-functional team to develop a streamlined process for the creation of investor communications and manage ongoing production of Wall Street presentations.Manage quarterly global business unit reviews to ascertain both macro and commercial factors underpinning performance, guiding international businesses through key topics to cover to ensure the integrity of investor communications.Leverage professional relationships to identify and resolve root causes of business unit performance and trends for consideration in external messaging. Create and manage tools and metrics for multi-dimensional business analysis and competitor profiling, including efficient communication to senior management and external messaging.

Responsible for Internal Audit function for business units comprising one half of the overall H.J. Heinz Company. Developed and implemented annual audit plan and worked with management to support a positive internal control environment. Designed and implemented global audit department KPI's.Re-engineered audit process and procedures to drive efficiency and improve communication.

Managed initial Sarbanes Oxley implementation from project design and coordination through to development and testing of key controls.Led foreign forensic investigations (FCPA).Pioneered global usage of automated audit software.

Oversaw and coordinated foreign currency risk management and working capital improvements to Heinz subsidiaries in the Asia Pacific Region. Served as Financial Controller for Regional Headquarters, including accounting and reporting of actual, forecast and budgeted results, statutory accounts and tax returns.Developed regional working capital tracking model and liaised with regional affiliate to achieve $7 million improvement in operating cash flow.

Responsible for the implementation of hedge accounting and simultaneous centralization of regional treasury activities as well as further developing accounting, reporting and forecasting processes for treasury-related activities across Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Prepared monthly financial statements for the Treasury business unit.

Planned and managed small teams in risk-based audits of operational functions.

Mba, Finance, General

Bs, Accounting And International Business

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Accounting & International Business

Study Abroad, Business

Diploma, College/University Preparatory And Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program